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*Manage the roles for all support staff who come and go.

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*Administrators in the wiki will come and go. The role will need changing for those who are no longer administrators.

*Administrators in the wiki will come and go. The role will need changing for those who are no longer administrators.

*Reviewers are typically those who are assigned to upload images to the wiki. The Reviewers are constantly changing, therefore the role will need to be removed when the user is no longer assigned to upload images.

*Reviewers are typically those who are assigned to upload images to the wiki. The Reviewers are constantly changing, therefore the role will need to be removed when the user is no longer assigned to upload images.

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Numerous articles about using the wiki exist as content pages in the wiki. An overall review, organization, and content improvement will be an ongoing task for the tier two community. All pages related to tours, demos, overviews, etc. should be identified, edited, and managed on an ongoing basis:

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Wiki Community

Priority 1: Training Meetings for Contributors and Researchers

Evaluate current meetings to see if they fit the needs of our Community

Reach out to Community to invite their participation

Get input from the Community to ascertain their needs and wants for training meetings and materials

Wiki Policies and Guidelines

Priority 1: Role Management

The Wiki provides several different types of roles. Having an understanding of the different roles and the process by which a user can have their role changed is critical. The Management of the roles for different users will be an ongoing task for the Wiki Support Team Leaders.

Manage the roles for all support staff who come and go.

Manage other roles within the wiki held by staff, missionaries, volunteers, and the general wiki community.

Administrators in the wiki will come and go. The role will need changing for those who are no longer administrators.

Reviewers are typically those who are assigned to upload images to the wiki. The Reviewers are constantly changing, therefore the role will need to be removed when the user is no longer assigned to upload images.

Moderators for the wiki content will come and go. The moderator role assigned to the users will need changing accordingly. See Moderator Approval Procedures for instructions in handling requests from individuals wishing to be Moderators. Pages in the wiki related the moderator role include:

Wiki Maintenance

Maintenance Templates

Review the documentation for each template. The documentation resides on each individual template page.

Review the category page for each template to see the current list of pages that have had the template added to the page.

Provide support and follow-up on the maintenance templates. The community members who are contributing content should be encouraged to respond to the requests for content from some of the templates (citations needed, ambiguous page title, outdated articles, etc.)

Reporting on the status of the maintenance templates is something that needs to be developed.

Wiki Help

Priority 1: Watching Important Content

Go through the help pages and watch any under your area of responsibility. (You could watch all Help pages, for example, or just a sub-set of them.)

When you receive emails on changes, scan changes for anything you might feel a need to review for accuracy.

Use the opportunity to teach others if you see any problems with the editing of the pages you are watching.

Priority 2: Wiki Tours, Demos, Overviews, etc.

Numerous articles about using the wiki exist as content pages in the wiki. An overall review, organization, and content improvement will be an ongoing task for the tier two community. All pages related to tours, demos, overviews, etc. should be identified, edited, and managed on an ongoing basis:

The wiki Help:Tour page(s) were created to help people use the wiki. Basically this is a different type of help. Revisions to the content may be needed.